SW/Central Asia Test
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| Crude oil | show 🗑
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| show | A resource that takes so long to form that it can't be replaced. Oil, which takes millions of years to form is such a resource.
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| Oil reserves | show 🗑
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| show | A resource that can't be used up or that can be replaced quickly as it is used up. Sunlight is a renewable resource that cannot be used up. Wood is a renewable resource that can be replaced by planting more trees.
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| show | Plants and animals died in oceans. After time their remains turn into rock, but some remains don't. The weight of water, heat from the earth's core, and chemical changes combined to transform some of the remains into oil and natural gas.
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| Why so much oil is buried under southwest asia | show 🗑
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| Why per capita gdp isn't always an accurate reflection of people's wealth | show 🗑
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| Why some oil rich countries haven't been able to end poverty | show 🗑
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| How oil has made the people of SW Asia better off | show 🗑
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| The goals of Southwest Asian OPEC members | show 🗑
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| Two realities that have limited OPEC's power | show 🗑
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| show | Oil importing countries and oil exporting countries.
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| Why oil importing and exporting countries were coalition members | show 🗑
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| The 5 most oil-rich countries in the world | show 🗑
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| The 5 least oil-rich countries in the world | show 🗑
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| show | A city that is the governmental center of a country or region. Sometimes a capital city is also a primate city.
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| show | The largest and most important city in a country. A primate city has at least twice the population of the next largest city. It is a center of economic power and national culture.
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| show | The specific place where something is located, including its physical setting.
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| show | The way a place is positioned in relation to its wider surroundings.
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| What happens as more and more people move to Istanbul | show 🗑
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| show | Jobs, education, and excitement.
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| What primate cities are | show 🗑
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| What Istanbul is a center of | show 🗑
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| show | The rest of the world.
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| Many primate cities are also what | show 🗑
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| Primate cities are what kind of capitals | show 🗑
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| What you can find in Istanbul that can highlight Turkey's culture | show 🗑
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| Environmental degredation | show 🗑
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| show | Water lying deep under the ground that supplies wells and springs. Over half the people in the world depend on groundwater for their drinking water.
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| show | The buildup of salt in soil or water.
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| show | The condition that occurs when people don't have enough clean fresh water to meet their everyday needs.
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| show | Irrigating a desert to grow cotton seemed to work well. The new crop provided jobs for local people, but the cotton used up more water because it was a thirsty plant.
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| How farmers have been affected by the shrinking of the Aral Sea | show 🗑
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| show | About 95 million pounds of fish were harvested from the lake each year. Fish canneries in Moynaq produced 20 million cans of seafood a year. This thriving industry supported about 35000 workers.
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| show | Fisheries were left high and dry. The small amount of water that was left in the sea was too salty. The workers there had lost there jobs. Fish that lived in the water died. It decreased the population from 40000 people to 3000.
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| show | The sea provided water for nearby towns. There was enough water for household use and to irrigate crops on small farms.
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| show | People became ill from drinking polluted water. They have stomach problems and liver disease. Breathing in the toxic chemical in the air would create health problems, throat cancer, and lung diseases. Pregnant woman would suffer from anemia. Babies born s
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| What salinization affects | show 🗑
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| One major goal of OPEC | show 🗑
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| show | They can plant less thirsty crops.
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| show | Loss of biodiversity.
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| A SW Asian country that spends all its oil earnings on education and healthcare has a high ________ | show 🗑
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| show | Istanbul attracts more tourists.
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| What happens to water when salinization occurs | show 🗑
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| The Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, and the Blue Mosque all reflect what | show 🗑
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| What is likely to draw someone from a rural area to a primate city to live | show 🗑
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| Where Ankara ranks in Turkey's urban hierarchy | show 🗑
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| show | A long-term shortage of water.
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| What religion do most people in SW/ Central Asia follow | show 🗑
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| Where are primate cities mostly located on | show 🗑
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| What forces slowly turn the remains of plants and animals into oil | show 🗑
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| What has contributed most to the creation of a new desert in farming lands | show 🗑
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| What religions SW/ Central Asia is the birthplace of | show 🗑
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| What shapes economic activity in SW/ Central Asia | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| show | Being surrounded on three sides by water.
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| Is oil considered a renewable resource or a nonrenewable resource | show 🗑
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| Why oil is considered a nonrenewable resouce | show 🗑
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| The main cause of the shrinking of the Aral Sea | show 🗑
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| show | It has twice as many people as the next largest city.
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| Renewable energy resource | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial farming.
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